The first, 322-page, volume of a new eight-volume paperback edition of The Tale of Genji, often-described as the world’s first novel, adapted and translated into modern… Read more »
Earlier this month Kodansha, one of Japan’s largest and most prestigious publishers, released The Line, Retsu, a provocative new novel by the award-winning Fuminori Nakamura… Read more »
Genie TV in South Korea has launched a new television series based on the award-winning Japanese author Mitsuyo Kakuta’s 2012 novel Paper Moon, Kami no… Read more »
A mini television drama will be released next month in Japan by TV Asahi, a major Japanese national broadcaster linked to Japan’s most prestigious national… Read more »
‘From the first sentence—“Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life”—Nakamura plays tricks on the reader, the narrator, and even the notion of… Read more »
Asahi Shimbun Publications, the book publishing arm of one of Japan’s oldest and most prestigious national daily newspapers, released a bunko-bon, paperback, edition of The… Read more »
A world on the brink of disaster, where children with new attitudes are awakening with strange new abilities – but can they change the course… Read more »